Early Antibiotic Treatment for BAL-Confirmed Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Social psychiatry. Sozialpsychiatrie. Psychiatrie sociale
- Vol. 127 (2), 589-597
- https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.127.2.589
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